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Safaris

Since last three years, Diggi Palace has been hosting the former Jaipur
Heritage International Festival and later The Jaipur Literature Festival
with resounding success. World acclaimed authors like Shobha De, Salman
Rushdie, Mark Tully, Baby Halder, Aman Nath, Kiran Desai, Suketu Mehta,
Anupam Mishra, John Zubrzycki, Christopher Kremmer, Anita Nair, Manil
Suri, Dev Anand, Amir Khan, Kunal Basu, to name a few. We present
a photo gallery of the festival @ The Diggi Palace, which happened
through the years. We hope you enjoy the same.
"...a walled city and the romance of palaces, forts & temples...ten days
of...of laughing, dancing, eating, listening, learning...of discovering
world class international performers and authors...for celebrating
rajasthan's unrivalled heritage, music, arts, crafts...for appreciating
where we are and exploring where we want to go...for families with
puppet shows, workshops, circuses... of color, excitement, and
anticipation...for words spoken and written...for the only
UNESCO-endorsed city festival...for painting the town pink..."
John & Faith Singh ( Jaipur Heritage International Festival - 2007 )
"...Jaipur literature week embrace a shared vision of plural, multi
vocal voices...began in 2006...core group of people worked to create
conversations & dialogues across languages, cultural perceptions &
narrative disciplines...evenings, words shed their boundaries & flowed
into dance & music...in just three years, litfest has become a hub of
writing & publishing...excellence and interaction...city of Jaipur has a
proud tradition of local literature & committed and appreciative
audiences...international writers like Gore Vidal...Ian McEwan...share
common platform...hindi writers like Himanshu Joshi...Chitra Mudgal...Aruna
Roy...Jaipur, every January the world visits India and India visits the
world...hope you enjoy the journey..."
William Dalrymple / Namita Gokhale / Eleanor O'Keeffe (Jaipur
Literature Week - 2008)
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